The billionaire tech investor in a speech painted a unlit picture of America as he praised the GOP nominee as a ‘political outsider’ who would reverse US declinePeter Thiel has defended his support of Donald Trump,dismissing concerns approximately the Republican nominee’s anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim campaign positions as the result of the media “taking Trump literally” but not “seriously. Thiel used a speech Monday at the National Press Club in Washington to praise the Republican candidate as a “political outsider” who would reverse America’s decline.
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Source: theguardian.com